blockscout VS Papercups

BlockScout

Blockscout is a great project! https://github.com/blockscout/blockscout

If decentralized means, "run their own blockchain explorer on a PC and always have secure access to their explorer without being tracked", then that includes iquidus explorer, and blockscout, and those were just quickly found with google. Both of those projects have working code and support multiple altcoins (not affiliated). "First" is a wildly incorrect claim.

We are developing a custom version of the BlockScout block explorer which will serve as the Emerald block explorer. It will launch by the end of December.

Any reason why we don't use https://github.com/blockscout/blockscout for the explorer instead of building our own? To me it looks like blockscout already has lots of feature that are missing in the current explorer.

BlockScout

Blockscout is the right solution. However, there is a bug and an open issue: https://github.com/blockscout/blockscout/issues/4203

blockscout team suggests the polygon upgrade to pull/3715 and that might solve the issue. I've added to my open ticket with matic support. I can also see an open ticket surround code verification for Aave linked to the same update in blockscout's github: https://github.com/blockscout/blockscout/issues/3752

The best language for the task at hand, when presented with time constraints, is the one that you already know well. OP said in the article that they authored Papercups [1]. Adopting Elixir for a websocket-push service makes a lot of sense, then. However, why don't you learn Elixir, some OTP, and then reconsider that question? You could be missing out.

[1] https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups

https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups - 5.2k stars, uses Phoenix 1.6

Papercups

Shameless plug here if anyone is interested in an open source live chat tool check out https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups

Phoneix - Elixir

We're a live message tool and it is basically what Elixir is built for https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups.

The Elixir community has been great and incredibly friendly. I originally was worried about the size of the community but that hasn't been an issue the community has been super helpful. I also think the annual stackoverflow usage surveys are very misleading because most of the community's questions get asked in ElixirForum and not on Stackoverflow.

Phoneix is the web framework of Elixir which is very similar to Rails but minus a lot of the magic has been very helpful for our productivity as well.

If I had to built another service that is websocket heavy I would definitely use Elixir. Even if it was a standard crud app I would still most likely choose Elixir.